– UK, Borehamwood – Safestore Holdings plc (LON: SAFE) today announced the appointment of Jane Bentall to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director with effect from 18 May 2022.
“I am delighted to welcome Jane onto the Board. As an established business leader, she brings extensive financial, operational and strategic experience in managing multisite businesses, which will be highly valuable to Safestore as the business continues to expand.” said Board Chairman, David Hearn.
Jane has also joined the Audit and Remuneration Committees with effect from 18 May 2022.
About Jane Bentall
Jane Bentall has extensive experience and understanding of operating multisite, consumer-led businesses. Most recently, Jane was Managing Director of Haven, the UK holiday parks chain and largest business division of Bourne Leisure. Before becoming Managing Director of Haven, she was the Group CFO for 12 years and previously spent six years as Operations Director. In her career, she has also held senior financial roles at the Rank Group, the UK gambling group.
Jane Bentall is a director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Oakman Inns plc, a consultant for Blackstone, and a member of Pilotlight.
Jane Bentall is an ACA qualified accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
About
Safestore is the UK’s largest self-storage group with 178 stores at 30 April 2022, comprising 130 wholly-owned stores in the UK (including 72 in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle, and Bristol), 29 wholly-owned stores in the Paris region, 4 stores in Barcelona, 9 stores in the Netherlands and 6 stores in Belgium.
Safestore operates more self-storage sites inside the M25 and in central Paris than any competitor providing more proximity to customers in the wealthiest and more densely populated the UK and French markets.
Safestore was founded in the UK in 1998. It acquired the French business “Une Pièce en Plus” in 2004 which was founded in 1998 by the current Safestore Group CEO Frederic Vecchio.
- Safestore has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2007. It entered the FTSE 250 index in October 2015.
- The Group provides storage to around 90,000 personal and business customers.
- As of 30 April 2022, Safestore had a maximum lettable area of 7.667 million sq ft (excluding the expansion pipeline stores) of which 6.186 million sq ft was occupied.
- Safestore employs around 750 people in the UK, Paris, Barcelona, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
For more information: https://www.safestore.co.uk/
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